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Measuring Genuine Progress : An Example from the UN Millennium Development Goals Project
Fisher, William P. - 2021
Proposals for incorporating information on the quality of human, social, and environmental conditions in more authentic and comprehensive versions of the Gross National Product (GNP) or Gross Domestic Product (GDP) date back to the foundations of econometrics.Typically treated as external to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013211173
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Measuring Genuine Progress by Scaling Economic Indicators to Think Global & Act Local : An Example from the UN Millennium Development Goals Project
Fisher, William P. - 2019
Proposals for incorporating information on the quality of human, social, and environmental conditions in more authentic and comprehensive versions of the Gross National Product (GNP) or Gross Domestic Product (GDP) date back to the foundations of econometrics. Typically treated as external to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014187122
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Literature review on fundamental concepts and definitions, objectives and policy goals as well as instruments relevant for socio-ecological transition
Dimitrova, Anna; Hollan, Katarina; Laster, Daphne; … - 2013
new socio-ecological growth path in Europe. The new path underlines the need to guarantee Welfare as a broad universal … new European growth and development strategy is necessary and feasible, enabling a socio-ecological transition to high … challenges necessitating deliberations on a new growth path, to define socio-ecological transition, key actors and main obstacles …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010431693
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The new global agenda and the future of the multilateral development bank system
Bhattacharya, Amarendra; Kharas, Homi Jamshed; Plant, … - 2018
development banks (MDBs) are uniquely placed to support policy and institutional reforms and build institutional capacity, enhance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011809881
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Can fungibility of development aid lead to more effective achievement of the SDGs? : an analysis of the aggregate welfare effect of aid fungibility
Rana, Zunera; Koch, Dirk-Jan - 2022
In this paper, we explore the relationship between foreign aid fungibility and aggregate welfare. Using panel data from … 35 low-income and lower-middle-income countries, we first check the presence of sectoral aid fungibility in our sample … aggregate welfare as measured through the Human Development Index. Our findings suggest that in some cases sectoral aid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013419019
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The 2030 agenda and development co-operation results
Engberg-Pedersen, Poul - 2018
Providers of development co-operation can benefit from the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), targets and indicators for use in their results frameworks. The paper examines the SDG outcome and performance targets and indicators that fit with the goals of individual providers. It presents a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011853657
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Enabling civil society for sustainable development : select survey findings
Wood, Jacqueline; Fällman, Karin - 2019
Civil society and civil society organisations (CSOs) are important to development co-operation, both as implementing partners for members of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC), and as development actors in their own right. Agenda 2030 is clear on the necessity of mobilising CSOs to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012136987
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In Search of Viable Business Models for Development : Sustainable Energy in Developing Countries
Kolk, Ans - 2012
.Findings – Existing studies on sustainable energy take macro-economic and/or policy-oriented approaches, containing specific case studies … faced by companies/entrepreneurs when aiming for viable business models, and provides insights to policy-makers who want to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013103541
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A Resolution for a Quiet Revolution : Taking the United Nations to Sustainable Development ‘Beyond Aid’
Wennubst, Pio; Mahn, Timo - 2013
Quadrennial Comprehensive Policy Review (QCPR) as a starting point. The QCPR has evolved into a key vehicle for making system … to give the UNDS a new sense of purpose as it adapts its business model from aid to sustainable development. It …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014151093
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The Social Responsibility of International Business : From Ethics and the Environment to CSR and Sustainable Development
Kolk, Ans - 2017
This article examines how the international business (IB) literature has addressed social responsibility issues in the past 50 years, highlighting key developments and implications from a historical perspective. Specific attention is paid to the Journal of World Business (JWB), which has covered...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014134056